Example sentences of "tell this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
| 2 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 3 | He told this to Dr Schäfer , the Intendant or general director of the theatre at Stuttgart , who published it after John 's death , spelling the hypothetical name differently on various occasions . |
| 4 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 5 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 6 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 7 | ‘ I told this O'Hara fellow about her mother this morning . |
| 8 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 9 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 10 | she told this . |
| 11 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |
| 12 | this trouble once with a with a young child and er I told this this this person er granny figure if you like , do n't talk to those children I 've told them not to they went on and on and on . |
| 13 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 14 | ( I told this lad what I thought of what he said too ) . |
| 15 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |
| 16 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 17 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 18 | I was told this would take time to go through . |
| 19 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 20 | Next year I shall plant crown imperials , Fritillaria imperialis , round the garden as I am told this will deter even the most persistent mole . |
| 21 | Another girl commented that she had never ever been told she was beautiful , and believed strongly that all children should be told this by their parents . |
| 22 | After he had told this tale at the hearings , Representative Tom Foley asked him : ‘ Those were not normal public actions , were they ? ’ |
| 23 | He was told this and not Wilson . |
| 24 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 25 | When told this , Johnny Cooper was not amused . |
| 26 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 27 | Rose was not told this , for fear of destroying her morale . |
| 28 | I am told this is the norm . |
| 29 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 30 | He asked the doctor if the two events might be connected but was told this was most unlikely . |